T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF South and Central America region · High-Income country
An estimated 3,229 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Uruguay in 2025. Each year about 170 people are newly diagnosed and 39 people with T1D die. A further 850 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
3,229
New diagnoses this year
170
Deaths this year
39
Missing people
850
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
61.0years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Uruguay?
3,229 people in Uruguay are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 95.5 per 100,000 people. That is lower than the South and Central America average of 160.6 per 100,000 and lower than the global average of 115.5. Uruguay has the 126th-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 18th-largest of the 20 countries in the IDF South and Central America region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Uruguay, another 26 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Uruguay?
The number of people living with T1D in Uruguay went from 1,230 in 2000 to 3,229 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 4,954 by 2040 (+53%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Uruguay, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Uruguay over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
1,230
86
25
583
2010
1,816
118
29
657
2020
2,698
153
32
776
2025
3,229
170
39
850
2030 (projected)
3,843
205
52
951
2040 (projected)
4,954
193
67
1,264
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Uruguay?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Uruguay today is expected to live to 61.0, compared with 79.0 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 18.0 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 27.5 years of healthy life at today's level of care. If everyone received timely diagnosis, insulin and test strips, and insulin pumps and CGMs, that loss would fall to 15.1 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Uruguay, as each level of care is added in turn
Level of care
Healthy years restored
Healthy years of life
Healthy years still lost
Current level of care
–
51.5
27.5
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
–
51.5
27.5
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+4.6
56.1
22.9
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.8
63.9
15.1
How does Uruguay compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Uruguay compared with the South and Central America region and the world, 2025
2025
Uruguay
South and Central America
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
95.5
160.6
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
5.0
9.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
26.3
45.8
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
61.0
52.4
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
79.0
77.7
77.0
Type 1 diabetes in other South and Central America countries
All figures are T1D Index version 3.0 estimates for all ages. Missing people are those who would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes. Expected age at death is for a 10-year-old. See Data & Methods for how the estimates are made and the peer-reviewed publications behind them.
